Behind sister and I is the house opposite the beach. The four storeys in the background.

A trip down memory lane.

This is from the Ballaquayle Hoard of Viking treasure.

The Manx Museum has a good chronology of Isle Of Man history.

Much more of this later.

This is Gaut's Cross (left). The design has been much copied. The other is Dragon's Cross.

We are staying at Ballasalla and set off for our first walk.

Through Castletown and around Scarlett.

The heron paddling in the Silverburn is showing the effects of a cooling breeze.

Also the site of the burning of a witch in the 14th century.

The island is predominantly slate but there is limestone around Scarlett. Used to build the castle and houses in the town.

Bradda Head visible to the right of centre.

Reputedly used in the Taj Mahal but very difficult to confirm.

The quarry has had a checkered history and there's currently someone looking for planning permission to re-open it.

Of course we have a water colour of this view on the wall in Brisbane.

The stones were placed here after the excavation around 1940 to show the outline. We saw the finds at the museum.

Keeills are small churches. The service was probably held inside and the preaching outside where most people had to be. About 10th century, probably on the site of an earlier church.

This is a Bronze Age grave.

About 1000 BC.

Looking across Carrick Bay we can see Scarlett where we walked yesterday.

There's an Iron Age hut circle somewhere near but we failed to find it.

Kitterland is the little island. The Calf of Man the larger.

There's a strong current through the sound.

Interesting memories of a trip through it on a small fishing boat in a gale.

Slate lends itself to aligning the stones vertically as in the first part of the wall.

Further down they stones are larger and laid horizontally

It eventually lost to the package tours of Spain and elsewhere. The hotels have now mostly been converted to flats.

We caught the bus back to Ballasalla.